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Sosa caught with cork in his bat

Discussion in 'MLB - Baseball Forum' started by K-Town-Yankee, Jun 3, 2003.

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  1. Jun 4, 2003 at 7:29 PM #61
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    Thank you! They had film footage of a bat maker showing how to make a corked bat. That is exactly what he said.

    Am I the only one who thinks this is being blown way out of proportion? Pitchers and batters will do anything they can to get an advantage. If they had a rule that said all bats must be identical it would be much more significant. Untill baseball starts testing and enforcing steroid use this is minor.

    Should Tiger Woods have an be thought of any less since he has much better clubs and balls then most others? Suspend him and move on.
     
  2. Jun 4, 2003 at 7:35 PM #62
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    They have tested 77 of Sosa's bats and none of them contained cork.
     
  3. Jun 4, 2003 at 7:47 PM #63
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    the cork is only there to keep the bat from sounding hollow. to keep it sounding like a legal bat. they move the weight, making the bat lighter, yet the same length which results in a faster swing. this is along the same lines as to why high school and college bats now have to have a -3 length to weight ratio. for example, a 33 inch bat can be no lighter than 30 ounces. this came into effect in the last few years to reduce the exit speed of the ball off of the bat. the -5 ratios from back a few years, along with always-changing stronger metals were resulting in too fast of an exit speed, so it was changed for safety.

    i have an older 33 in 28 oz Easton, and a newer 33 in 30 oz Easton if anyone wishes to do their own comparison

    thats all i have to say about that.
     
  4. Jun 4, 2003 at 8:15 PM #64
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    I think Sammy is telling the truth and I think Rick Reilly from SI is an asshole.
     
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    i really want to believe him, and so far it looks like the truth...and what did reilly say, i must have missed that
     
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    He is just pissed because Sosa wouldn't take a piss test for him when the steroid controversy was going on. Now he is taking the stand that Sosa can't be trusted and that since he cheats with his bat it can't be that far of a stretch that he cheats with his body.
     
  7. Jun 4, 2003 at 8:27 PM #67
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    oh, gotcha patti......well reilly is a prick anyways.......altho his columns are good
     
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    Careful what you offer - builder or fred might take you up on that.....
     
  9. Jun 5, 2003 at 11:36 AM #69
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    now thats a troubling thought:D
     
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    Rick Reilly is indeed a jackass, and he needs to shut his big yap.

    As for Sammy, I'd like to believe him...and the fact that none of his other bats were corked makes me slightly more apt to believe him. Slightly. But seriously, I find it difficult to believe that he couldn't feel the difference between the corked bat and a regular bat. It would have to be significantly lighter, otherwise he wouldn't have bothered putting the cork in there in the first place.
     
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